Workers' Compensation News

Our first article in this series introduced the Medicare Set Aside Trust and compared the application of Medicare in tort claims versus workers' compensation. This next article in the series will discuss applicable definitions and the difference between a commutation and a compromise and release as ...Read More

I. Introduction
Over the last decade, much progress has been made in devising of preserving public benefits for disabled individuals. However, scant attention has been given to the special problems of preserving public benefits in the context of worker's compensation settlements. Sett...Read More

Our first article discussed various methods to get your name out in front of decision makers and those that are going to hire a lawyer - what everyone otherwise recognizes as marketing. These techniques are very important for name recognition, but are not the complete answer. The legal professional ...Read More

Our first article discussed various methods to get your name out in front of decision makers and those that are going to hire a lawyer - what everyone otherwise recognizes as marketing. These techniques are very important for name recognition, but are not the complete answer. The legal professional ...Read More

The practice of law is necessarily a personal service. Marketing the law practice is also a personal activity. The general rule is that advertising is good for name recognition and building leads, but when it comes down to hiring a lawyer, the prospective client is going to remember personal attribu...Read More

The practice of law is necessarily a personal service. Marketing the law practice is also a personal activity. The general rule is that advertising is good for name recognition and building leads, but when it comes down to hiring a lawyer, the prospective client is going to remember personal attribu...Read More

Dramatically increasing workers' compensation prices are a fact, and have been for the past 3 years, with no relief in sight any time soon. The biggest cost driver in workers' compensation, according to several studies lately, is the medical component. There are several options available to the work...Read More

While most people think that only medical information that is relevant to the condition for which workers' compensation benefits are being provided are discoverable by the insurance company, in fact the standard is much broader.Once you bring a workers' compensation claim, any medical inform...Read More

We know that failure to send required forms or notices can be costly; it seems especially so when a missed mandatory form or notice results in a requirement to provide VR services after the 5-year statute. We know of at least one recent case where an applicant's attorney successfully used ...Read More

Today's Round Up

03/20/2018 |
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The North Carolina Department of Insurance has hired 15 new agents to fight a rising tide of insurance fraud.
Mike Causey
The state's General Assembly last year appropriated $2.4 million to hire the agents after fraud arrests jumped to 334 in 2017, a 60% increase from the previous year, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey said in news release. Each month, the department receives 400 to 500 fraud complaints, Causey said.
The new agents were trained at the department's anti-fraud academy and include a crime analyst, forensic accountant, attorneys and special agents.
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03/19/2018 |
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Texas could make better use of stop-work orders to crack down on employers who misclassify workers as contractors to avoid paying workers' compensation, a Washington, D.C., think tank said this week.
Andrew Elmore
The Migration Policy Institute, which studies migration worldwide, on Thursday released a study that shows immigrants are twice as likely as native-born workers to be employed in industries in which labor violations are widespread.
Misclassifying workers as independent contractors is common in low-wage businesses, the report said.
Some states, including Texas, are not ...
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